On Oct 20, 2010, at 12:04 PM, Ernie Rubi wrote:
I don't think ARIN (or any other RIR) wants people to think this way.
Ernie - ARIN doesn't have a view on how people should think. It does have an interest in making sure that number resources policies that are adopted by community are followed.
STLS to me is kind of double speak, ARIN says: "this isn't a capital resource", but yet if you go through us and list your 'unused' blocks in this space, we don't care what financial transaction happens behind the scenes.
Maybe John can shed more light on this.
Specified Transfer Listing Service (STLS) is a service, not a policy. You don't need to use the STLS to make use of the Specified Transfer policy. The Specified Transfer policy lets parties to free up address space (that might not otherwise be available) and then arrange transfer to another party. Given that a lot of IPv4 address space may be readily available given a little work to renumber, it was felt to be a reasonable compromise in encouraging better utilization once we've run out of the IP4 free pool. Parties which receive under the specified transfer policy still must meet all of the normal address allocation requirements, including documented need. /John John Curran President and CEO ARIN